The House Armed Services Committee is supporting the Marine Corps' plans to accelerate the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Increment 1.1 program, providing an additional $85 million in its mark of the fiscal year 2015 defense authorization bill. In the Navy's FY-15 budget request that was sent to Congress in March, $105 million was set aside for ACV Increment 1.1. A year earlier, the Marine Corps projected it would spend $275 million on ACV in FY-15. "The funding decrease from FY-14 to...
